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Pharmaceutical | December 26, 2016

Kubota Pharmaceutical Holdings Co., Ltd. (Tokyo 4596, “Kubota Pharma”), a clinical-stage ophthalmology company committed to translating innovation into a diverse portfolio of drugs and devices to preserve and restore vision for millions of people worldwide, and SBI Holdings, Inc. (“SBI”), a financial services and asset management company based in Japan, announced today the signing of a non-binding letter of intent (“LOI”) to establish a joint venture that will organize and manage special purpose...

DEA | December 25, 2016

Pharmaceutical companies that manufacture or distribute highly addictive pain pills have hired dozens of officials from the top levels of the Drug Enforcement Administration during the past decade, according to a Washington Post investigation....

CMA | December 16, 2016

Just a week after fining two drug companies £90m, the Competition & Markets Authority has unearthed yet more pharmaceutical funny business. This time it involves a life-saving treatment, hydrocorisone, that is used to treat people whose adrenal glands don’t produce sufficient amounts of natural steroid hormones…...

ZME Science | December 21, 2016

US authorities have charged six companies of price fixing in the US, India, and Australia. Drugmakers Mylan, Heritage Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceutical USA and Citron Pharma are named in the lawsuit alongside India’s Aurobindo Pharma and Australia’s Mayne Pharmaceuticals....